Commentary

The roar of Europe’s protest vote

WASHINGTON — When the dyspeptic poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), who loathed Belgium even more than most things, was…

Commentary

Alison Grimes got her guy and it’s Barack Obama

Kentucky U. S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes was a proud Barack Obama delegate at the 2012 Democratic…

Our Opinion

Mr. Reid: Give McConnell’s coal legislation a read

Since taking the oath of office, Obama has made it clear he is no friend to the coal…

Commentary

To reform, Ukraine will need Western support

On meeting Ukraine’s president-elect, Petro Poroshenko, in Warsaw Wednesday, President Barack Obama said the United States was “absolutely…

Commentary

What’s the matter with Louisville?

There is simply no denying it. For far too long Louisville has been mismanaged and performed poorly in…

Commentary

Showdown in Tar Heel country

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — “Twenty-four times” is Thom Tillis’ answer, delivered with a faint flicker of a Cheshire Cat…

Commentary

Obama is failing to lead on foreign policy

Having just returned from Ukraine, I found it hard to recognize the world President Barack Obama described in…

Commentary

Emptiness at West Point

WASHINGTON — It was fitting that the day before President Barack Obama gives his grand West Point address…

Economics

Things to think about in the city commision race

I have some suggestions that hopefully may help us make more informed voting decisions in November when we…